Busch goes after Logano following on-track incident at Las Vegas

March 12, 2017

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A late-race on-track battle between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano resulted in multiple contacts, a spin and a post-race fight on pit road.

Busch and Logano were racing inside the top 5 on the final lap when they came across a slower Brad Keselowski entering turn three. Busch turned hard to his left to miss Keselowski, which slammed him into Logano.

Logano dived under Busch on the exit of turn four and washed up the track, which spun Busch out of contention. Logano finished fourth, while Busch fell all the way back to 22nd. Busch immediately walked over to Logano on pit road and landed a punch on the Team Penske driver. Busch was bleeding from his forehead after the fracas, but the damage occured after crew members jumped in.

"I got dumped," Busch said on the FOX Sports broadcast. "He flat out just drove straight in the corner and wrecked me. That’s how Joey races, so he’s going to get it."

Despite video evidence to the contrary, Logano said Busch didn’t land a blow on the Penske contender. He also said the final on-track contact between the two was not intentional nor retaliation for what happened entering the corner.

"There wasn’t too much talking, just a lot of swinging," Logano said. "I don’t know. I was racing him right there at the end with our Pennzoil Ford. … Kyle and I usually race really well together and don’t have any issues. He tried to pin me down into the corner underneath Brad. We about crashed and I was still trying to gather it up in the center. I was going to spin out, so I’m trying to chase it up (the track) and he was there.

"It wasn’t intentional, but obviously he thinks that. So I don’t know."

Matt Weaver
- Matt Weaver is an associate motorsports editor at Autoweek. Before becoming a journalist, he was a dirt track racer and short track cheeseburger connoisseur.
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